Why is construct validity essential in an experiment?
What will be an ideal response?
If one wants to draw conclusions from an experiment, one has to know that the study manipulates and validly measures the underlying psychological construct that he or she claims to be measuring and manipulating within the study. For example, if anxiety is the independent variable in a study, the researcher must be certain that the instrument validly measures anxiety and not some other construct.
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Stephen is a child on the autism spectrum. After an assessment the recommendation is that he needs therapy that reinforces and rewards his behavior. This intervention is called
A. Play therapy. B. Applied behavior analysis. C. Response to intervention. D. Personal counseling.
While students are visiting the writing center, one first grade student relies exclusively on drawings to tell a story rather than attempting to write. How could the teacher encourage the child to try?
a. Do nothing as writing skills develop with regular instruction. b. Send the child to the listening center instead. c. Assign additional writing worksheets for homework. d. Have the student dictate a sentence to accompany the drawings.
Compare and contrast Piaget's stages of cognitive development, including the ages of individuals in each stage and a description of the traits that typify each stage.
What will be an ideal response?
The Council for Exceptional Children in its 1993 spring meeting supported:
a) Separate classes for exceptional children b) Special schools for exceptional students c) Full inclusion d) None of these